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Robert J. Gillespie

Robert James Gillespie, 71, of Roanoke, IN, died Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at his home.

Mr. Gillespie worked at General Motors for 45 years, retiring in 2013. He served for four years in the U. S. Air Force as an electronic technician, working on ground radar from 1968 to 1972. He attended college at University of Wisconsin, at the Whitewater campus.

He was born in Milwaukee, WI, on Jan. 27, 1949, to George R. and Ruth Wrangham Gillespie. He was married to Nancy A. Gillespie for 44 years, and she survives in Roanoke.
 
Additional survivors include three sons, David (Rachel) Gillespie, Brian (Yon Park) Gillespie, and Ross (Sarah Baker) Gillespie; three sisters, Dolly (Lawrence) Siebert, of Belvedere, IL, Jo Ann (Alfred) Garthwaite, of Janesville, WI, and April (Kenneth) Jensen, of Racine, WI; two brothers, Daniel Gillespie and Dennis Gillespie, both of Janesville, WI; a stepbrother, Daniel Wiedman, also of Janesville, WI; four grandchildren, Samuel Gillespie, Melissa (Anthony) Gillespie, Sydney Gillespie and Gemma Gillespie; and five great-grandchildren.

 A memorial gathering will be held in the spring. Hite Funeral Home in Kendallville is in charge of arrangements.